[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of the first English etymological dictionary. London: 1671

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(DICTIONARIES) Skinner, Stephen. ETYMOLOGICAN LINGUAE ANGLICANAE, Seu  Explicatio Vocum Anglicarum Etymologica Ex Propriis Fontibus... Ex Linguis Duodecim... Accedit Etymologicon Botanicum... Accedit & Tertio Vocum Forensium... Quarto Adjectae Sunt Originationes Omnium Vocum... Tandem Ultimo Etymologicon... Omnia Alphabetico Ordine in Quinque Distinctas Classes Digesta. London: Typis T. Roycroft... apud H. Brome... 1671. First edition. With the imprimatur leaf dated Sept. 7, 1668, as in all copies. Folio. Unpaginated. Each of the words to be defined is printed in gothic type. Rebound in 20th c. plain brown calf. Engraved armorial bookplate of J. A. Picton, an antiquary and architect, on front pastedown. Minor worming in the bottom blank margin of first hundred leaves. At the bottom outer corner of the title page in a contemporary hand is a manuscript note giving the price "1 pound, 5 shillings, 0 pence by way of subscription." This note I believe provides some new information that was not previously known, that this title was published by subscription.    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first important study on the etymology of English words. Wing S3947.

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